Title: Local Install issues?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Local Install issues?

 *  [soupsoup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soupsoup/)
 * (@soupsoup)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-issues/)
 * Hello all,
 * I’m attempting to test-drive WordPress before I purchase server space by installing
   everything I need on my home machine. I’ve installed Apache, and it seems to 
   work. I then installed PHP, and it works for scripts that I write by hand, but
   when I attempt to run the wp-install.php file WordPress tells me that the version
   of PHP I have installed doesn’t include MySQL. I did install MySQL on my machine
   too. Can anyone give me a detailed step-by-step on how to make this work on a
   local machine? Much appreciation for any help-
    Aneal K.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-issues/#post-680782)
 * step by step, take your pick of operating systems:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation)
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-issues/#post-680798)
 * Installing xampp is pretty straight forward:
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
 *  [x3lace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/x3lace/)
 * (@x3lace)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-issues/#post-680804)
 * Ah thanks! I need to do this myself 🙂

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [local](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/local/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [x3lace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/x3lace/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-issues/#post-680804)
 * Status: not resolved

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